Bitwarden vs. LastPass

Bitwarden offers services across 50+ languages, and is continuing to expand its translation efforts to support more global businesses.

LastPass only supports seven languages on its platform, making it less accessible to the global audience.

Bitwarden is completely open source, and is reviewed by experts to ensure continuous improvement as cyberthreats become more sophisticated. Bitwarden also offers a bug bounty program, encouraging users and security experts to report and remediate bugs—which results in a better overall experience for everyone. 

LastPass maintains a proprietary closed source back-end. Lack of structure transparency means LastPass doesn’t have the same global-community caliber that drives ongoing improvements. 

Bitwarden’s SSO is compatible with all SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect apps across environments; making it more integration-friendly and competitive than LastPass.  

LastPass offers SSO support but it’s gatekept behind the Business account or their Advanced SSO add-on, and it may be less compatible than Bitwarden’s SSO experience.

Bitwarden retains the privilege of having the biggest global community compared to other password managers, and maintains it by fostering collaboration at every step of the password management and data security process. 

LastPass: Extremely limited global community. 

Bitwarden’s self-hosted option is available from its free password manager tier, and remains compatible across Linux, MacOS, and Windows devices. Many appreciate this, as self-hosted solutions are typically at less risk for a data breach or security crisis. 

LastPass does not currently have a self-hosted option.

1. Log in to your LastPass account. 

2. Select the Advanced Options tab, located in the left sidebar.

3. Select Export from the Manage Your Vault option. This will prompt LastPass to send you an email to confirm this change. 

4. Log in to your email account associated with LastPass. 

5. Open the email from LastPass and confirm the export by following the on-screen prompts. 

6. Log back into your LastPass web vault, and click on the Export option again to complete the export. 

7. Check your downloads. Your data automatically saves as a .csv or displays on the screen in .csv format depending on your browser settings. 

8. If your data went to the screen: Highlight the content and copy/paste it into a new export.csv file for ease of use. 

LastPass currently offers two plans for businesses: Teams and Business. Teams is optimized for single-team small businesses, and Business is best for any organization that has multiple teams. Unlike Bitwarden, LastPass offers no advanced savings opportunities for companies with hundreds or thousands of employees, relegating them to choose the Business tier—which may or may not fit their needs or budget.

Additionally, key tools like Directory integration and advanced security reports/log monitoring are locked behind the Business plan paywall. This gap leaves individuals and businesses on the Teams tier two choices: pay more for the next membership tier, or go without key areas of functionality. 

Bitwarden offers these core functions at their lowest business tier, Teams, ensuring that no businesses, regardless of scale, go without.

Bitwarden maintains an open source approach that is constantly refined by users, developers, and security specialists around the world. This collaborative approach to betterment solidifies the application’s integrity, proactively identifying new opportunities for an even better outcome. 

LastPass lacks this global support network, as its code is completely closed-source and “proprietary.” 

In addition to salted hashing and advanced AES-256 bit encryption, Bitwarden engages experts who conduct ongoing reviews from the dedicated Bitwarden user community to better secure itself. This impressive list of third-party security auditors include:

• HackerOne (crowdsourced ethical hacking).

• Insight Risk Consulting (penetration testing).

• Cure53 (source code audits). 

See bitwarden.com/compliance for a full list of Bitwarden’s security and compliance materials.

Unlike LastPass, Bitwarden offers several advanced multifactor authentication methods:

• Company-wide Duo Security with Duo Push, SMS, phone call, and security keys.

• Individual use of Duo Security and TOTP codes.

• YubiKey OTP (any 4/5 series device or YubiKey NEO/NFC).

• Hardware security key (FIDO2 Passkey).

As you search for other password managers, consider looking for a suite of features similar to what Bitwarden offers (there’s a reason Bitwarden ranks #1 in user satisfaction on G2 for nine straight quarters!).

Users love Bitwarden because of all the features included from the free plan onward. Some of the most popular include: 

• Bitwarden’s open source structure that prioritizes transparency and security.

• Convenient cloud and self-host deployment options.

• Direct encrypted file or text sharing to anyone.

• Comprehensive import and export options.

• Support for over 50 languages.

• Clear, straightforward, value-based pricing.